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Craig HillWhat makes you smile on the first morning of the Ashes cricketing summer?
November 22nd 2006 22:11
There are certain things that confirm summer is finally upon us. Still sweating at 8pm at night because of ‘global warming’, newspaper coverage of the yearly outrage that is schoolies week on the Gold Coast and dusting off the shark biscuit boogie board for the first afternoon out on the waves being sledged by the surfing community.
This morning however it is the little surge of butterflies you get when you wake up knowing that at 10.50am (I’m tuning in then for old times sake because they only needed 10 minutes of pre game blurb when I was a kid) you will turn on the tele and catch that familiar beige, off white, ivory or bone jacket staring back at you from Richie.
For most people there are certain things that just cannot keep the smile off your face. For me it is impossible not to smile and do very child like jig when the ever recognisable Channel 9 cricket coverage theme music comes on for that first morning in November.
I can almost feel the pre game nerves right there in my living room. The nervous laughter, the pathetic attempt to get down two pieces of Vegemite toast and the ever present ABC cricket book on the coffee table, already showing the signs of dog ears after each player’s average and height has been memorised.
There are very few times in one’s life when there is genuine enjoyment gained from a televised ten pin bowling fixture but the first morning of the cricketing summer does strange things. By the second day however enough sanity sets in that a 300 game bowled by a 42 year old man from regional Queensland with a goatee really is boring. Even Chris Conroy’s World of Boats with his opera theme song for a common man gives me shivers to this day.
Well folks enjoy the day and be sure to share your own nervous energy from this morning with www.cricketnews.com.au
This morning however it is the little surge of butterflies you get when you wake up knowing that at 10.50am (I’m tuning in then for old times sake because they only needed 10 minutes of pre game blurb when I was a kid) you will turn on the tele and catch that familiar beige, off white, ivory or bone jacket staring back at you from Richie.
For most people there are certain things that just cannot keep the smile off your face. For me it is impossible not to smile and do very child like jig when the ever recognisable Channel 9 cricket coverage theme music comes on for that first morning in November.
I can almost feel the pre game nerves right there in my living room. The nervous laughter, the pathetic attempt to get down two pieces of Vegemite toast and the ever present ABC cricket book on the coffee table, already showing the signs of dog ears after each player’s average and height has been memorised.
There are very few times in one’s life when there is genuine enjoyment gained from a televised ten pin bowling fixture but the first morning of the cricketing summer does strange things. By the second day however enough sanity sets in that a 300 game bowled by a 42 year old man from regional Queensland with a goatee really is boring. Even Chris Conroy’s World of Boats with his opera theme song for a common man gives me shivers to this day.
Well folks enjoy the day and be sure to share your own nervous energy from this morning with www.cricketnews.com.au
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I think pretty much since we lost the ashes in the UK we've all been looking forward to today for justice!
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